Written questions
84 written questions tabled, most recent first.
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport
Driving Tests
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department is taking steps to discourage people from using third-party platforms to book Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency driving tests.
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pensions: Advisory Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of adjusting in line with inflation the £30,000 threshold over which advice must be sought before a pension is transferred.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Demolition: Equipment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has considered the potential merits of ending the export of demolition equipment to Israel.
29 Aug 2025 · Treasury
Lump Sum Payments: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to change the proportion of pensioners' tax-free lump sums that are exempt from tax.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Internet: Age Assurance
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to ensure that computer generated proofs of age are not used to verify age on websites.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Charities: Age Assurance
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has made an estimate of the cost to health advice charities of setting up age verification procedures.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Internet: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether organisations providing online health advice are required to age verify users.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Data Protection: Age Assurance
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether Ofcom is taking steps to ensure that companies involved in age verification do not (a) retain and (b) misuse personal data.
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to end the use by NHS England of generic drugs manufactured by companies with links to Israel.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Supported Housing: Housing Benefit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will reduce the Housing benefit taper rate to 55% for those living in supported accommodation.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Supported Housing: Housing Benefit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will review the level of the Housing Benefit disregard for young people living in supported accommodation.
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to end the purchase of Israeli manufactured generic drugs by NHS England.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Charities: Israeli Settlements
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to prevent UK-based charities from transferring funds to entities operating in illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
29 Aug 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Israel: Palestinians
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the report by Amnesty International entitled Amnesty International Investigation in Gaza highlig
29 Aug 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Israel: International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the International Court of Justice’s finding that Israel is in breach of the Convention on the E
29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Estate Agents: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has considered the potential merits of regulating estate agents to ensure best practise.
29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mortgages: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will consider the potential merits of amending the 1979 Estate Agents Act to ban the use of conditional selling.
22 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Palestinians: Academic Freedom
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Palestinian academics with offers of (a) positions and (b) study placements at universities in the UK can be issued with visas to allow them to travel to the UK.
22 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Palestinians: Refugees
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether there is a safe evacuation route that allows Palestinian academics to be evacuated from the Occupied Palestinian Territories to allow them to take up positions at uni
22 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Palestinians: Refugees
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps with the Secretary of State for the Home Department to establish a scheme to facilitate the evacuation of Palestinian academics to the UK.
3 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Immigration
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has issued on whether applicants for (a) leave to remain and (b) fee waiver who have (i) had their claims rejected, (ii) lost their right to work, (iii) lost their access
3 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
Infected Blood Compensation Scheme
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Infected Blood Compensation Authority plans to prioritise older claimants when making payments.
3 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
World Summit for Social Development
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether Ministers from his Department will attend the Second World Summit for Social Development between 4 and 6 November 2025 in Doha.
3 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid: Tropical Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he plans to continue to fund the (a) treatment and (b) elimination of neglected tropical diseases.
3 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he plans to continue to fund disability-inclusive education programmes.
3 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid: Sexual and Reproductive Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he will continue to provide funding to (a) the Women's Integrated Sexual Health program, (b) other Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights programs and (c) access t
3 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if a Minister from his Department will represent the UK at the Eighteenth Session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabili
2 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Resident Doctors: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the number of medical training places is proportionate to the increase in medical student numbers.
2 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Resident Doctors: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help support trainee physicians affected by the withdrawal of speciality training places by the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians.
2 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Resident Doctors: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to ensure there are adequate clinical fellowships available for junior doctors.
Source: official written-questions record.